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754  FIFTH  AVENVE  AT  57™ ST 
NEW  YORK 


THE  FIFTH  AVENUE  BANK  OF  NEW  YORK 

"FORTY  YEARS  ON  FIFTH  AVENUE" 


THE  SHERWOOD  HOUSE.  1889 
Northeast  corner  44th  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue. 

offices  of  The  Fifth  Avenue  Bank  are 
shown  in  the  basement 


The  first 


A  T  the  northwest  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  44th  Street  is  The  Fifth  Avenue  Bank  of 
/\    New  York,  an  institution  intimately  associated  with  the  development  of  Fifth  Avenue 
/    \    during  the  past  twoscore  years. 
JL  Its  quaint,  distinctive  building  —  once  the  home  of  a  prominent  citizen — is  forcibly 

suggestive  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  of  a  by-gone  day.  Dating  back  to  1866,  it  is  today  one  of  the 
few  structures  on  Fifth  Avenue  typical  of  the  fine  "uptown"  homes  which,  until  a  generation 
ago,  caused  the  Avenue  to  be  noted  as  an  exclusive  residential  thoroughfare.  During  the 
twenty-five  years  that  have  elapsed  since  the  Bank  moved  into  its  present  quarters,  Fifth  Avenue 

has  changed  from  a  quiet  avenue  of  homes  to  one 
of  the  world's  most  prominent  business  streets. 

It  was  at  No.  531  Fifth  Avenue,  in  the  base- 
ment of  the  old  Sherwood  House,  a  family  hotel 
which  stood  on  Delmonico's  present  site,  that  the 
Fifth  Avenue  Bank  of  New  York  first  opened  for 
business.  Until  October  7,  1875,  when  the  men 
who  subsequently  comprised  its  first  board  of  direc- 
tors met  in  the  Sherwood  House  to  organize  the 
Bank,  there  was  no  bank  of  deposit  and  discount 
in  the  42nd  Street  section  of  the  City.  Financial 
business  was  generally  conducted,  with  scant  con- 
venience, through  downtown  institutions. 

Assured  of  the  active  support  and  important  busi- 
ness of  a  large  number  of  neighboring  residents  and 
business  people,  many  of  whom  became  original  sub- 
scribers to  its  stock,  the  Bank  opened  its  doors  to  the 
public  on  October  13,  1875,  within  a  week  after  its 
organization.  Philip  Van  Volkenburgh  was  president, 
John  H.  Sherwood,  vice-president,  and  A.  S.  Frissell, 
cashier;  comprising  the  board  of  directors  were  the 
officers  and  James  Buell,  John  B.  Cornell,  Jonathan  Thome,  Gardner  Wetherbee,  William  H.  Lee, 
Russell  Sage,  Webster  Wagner,  Joseph  S.  Lowrey,  Charles  S.  Smith  and  Joseph  Thompson. 

A  steady  increase  in  the  Bank's  business  soon  caused  it  to  seek  new  and  larger  quarters,  and  in 
April,  1890,  it  moved  to  the  remodelled  residence  of  John  B.  Cornell,  at  the  northwest  corner  of 
44th  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  opposite  its  former  location.  Later  it  bought  the  adjoining  home 
of  Manton  Marble,  former  editor  of  The  World.     In  these  quarters  it  has  been  ever  since. 

Favored    with   an    admirable    location  —  amid    surroundings   that   imparted   a  distinctive, 
home-like  atmosphere — the  Bank,  from  the  beginning,  attracted  the  "uptown"  residents  it 
was  primarily  intended  to  serve.     To  this  day  many  of  its  original  depositors,  their  families 
and  descendents,  have  continued  relations  that  betoken 
years  of  satisfaction  and  enduring  confidence.  Exceptional 
accommodations,  notably  its  facilities  for  women  clients, 
have  commended  the  Bank  to  an  ever-widening  circle  of 
individual  depositors. 

Apart  from  its  many  personal  accounts,  the  Bank's 
enviable  record  for  uninterrupted  service  and  strict  ad- 
herence to  sound  banking  principles  has  gained  the  good- 
will and  patronage  of  the  business  community  which,  in 
later  years,  has  surrounded  it.  Its  substantial  clientele 
of  corporations,  firms  and  business  people,  may  be  justly 
ascribed  to  a  well-merited  reputation  for  fair  dealing, 
business-like  methods  and  unquestioned  stability. 

The  increasing  volume  of  the  Bank's  business  has  in- 
volved no  sacrifice  of  safety,  nor  of  efficient  service,  but, 
on  the  contrary,  is  the  result  of  a  policy  that  has  won  the 
approval  of  depositors  and  the  respect  of  the  community. 

The  record  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Bank  during  the  past 
forty  years,   its  ample  resources  and  strong  directorate,     the  fifth  avenue  bank  of  new  york 

furnish   a   significant   recommendation    tO   those   desiring   tO       Northwest  corner  of  44th  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue 

i  i-   I  •  -i  1  "111  ohowing  the  remodelled  Cornell  and  Marble 

establish   Connections  With   a   SOUnd   Commercial    bank.  residences  now  occupied  by  the  bank 


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STEIN  WAY  FAME  HAS  ENCIRCLED 
THE  WORLD 

Wherever  love  of  music  prevails  —  in  the  palace 
of  Old  World  royalty,  in  the  mansion  of  aristoc- 
racy, in  the  home  of  the  true  music  lover  every- 
where—  the 

STEINWAY 

is  known  and  preferred  above  all  other  pianos. 
Supremacy  of  tone  and  workmanship  has  achieved 
this  International  renown,  and  four  succeeding 
generations  have  faithfully  upheld  the  art  ideal 
which  produced  the  first  Steinway.  When  you 
buy  a  Steinway  you  buy  the  Standard  Piano  of 
the  World. 


STEINWAY  HALL 

O  1  LliN  WAY     CX    oUlNo     107-109  East  14th  Street,  New  York 


M  MWAY  EXPRI->s  STATION  AT  THE  DOOR 


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Fashions  new  and  cleverly  individual;  free  from 
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Uncommon  facilities  for  filling  hurried 
requirements   of  out-of-town  visitors 


471  FIFTH  AVENUE 
NEW  YORK 


OPPOSITE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


^^^■■^HKRE  is  nothing  so  typical  of  New 
a  York,  its  greatness,  its  wealth,  its 

t^JS  progressiveness  and  its  ever-chang- 
ing variety,  as  its  most  splendid  thoroughfare. 
Fifth  Avenue.  Taking  it  in  a  stretch  of  a  little 
over  three  miles,  from  Madison  Square  to  the 
home  of  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie,  it  is  to-day  the 
most  magnificent  street  in  the  world.  In  its 
first  mile,  starting  at  Washington  Square 
northward,  it  is  partially  reminiscent  and 
partially  a  nightmare,  but  it  is  neither  poor 
nor  dial).  It  represents  capital  in  its  ugly  loft 
buildings  covering  the  sites  of  stately  brown- 
stone  houses  of  the  founders  of  fortunes. 
These  utilitarian  structures  may  not  appeal  to 
one's  sense  of  beauty,  but  there  is  a  certain 


majesty  about  them  and  they  rise  over  the 
graves  of  many  architectural  blunders  of  an 
inartistic  period.  From  Madison  Square  to 
Central  Park,  it  is  the  Via  Appia  of  opulence. 
Beyond,  it  is  Arcady. 

It  is  in  this  mile  and  a  half,  where  the 
changes  are  most  apparent.  A  writer  in  the 
Sun  once  said  that  in  New  York  "memories 
like  rats  are  chased  away  by  the  ever  rising 
Hood  of  progress.  There  is  no  room  for 
ghosts."  W.  I).  Howells  in  his  amusing  sequel 
to  his  delightful  book  "Their  Wedding  Journey" 
gives  the  impressions  of  a  middle  aged  couple 
revisiting  the  scenes  of  their  honeymoon,  after 
a  lapse  of  thirty  years.  Place  these  people  in 
Madison  Square,  in  this  year  and  let  them 


Old  Chiekering  Hall,  which  formerly  stood  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Eighteenth  Street, 
famous  in  its  day  as  the  social  and  musical  center  of  the  metropolis.  The  former  quiet,  exclusive,  strictly  residen- 
tial character  of  this  portion  of  the  Avenue  has  now  entirely  departed. 


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look  about  them.  Nearly  all  the  familiar 
landmarks  of  1886  have  disappeared.  They 
are  in  another  city.  Their  New  York  has 
vanished.  The  Square  is  the  same,  perhaps  a 
little  less  conservative — but  the  loiterers  are 
of  a  different  class.  The  children  of  the 
wealthy  residents  and  their  nurses  are  gone. 
It  is  no  longer  a  residential  neighborhood. 

All  up  the  Avenue,  there  has  been  a  com- 
plete transformation.  Thirty  years  is  really 
a  short  period.  In  this  summary  of  what 
has  taken  place,  no  attempt  will  be  made  to 
allude  to  the  older  history  of  the  street.  It 
will  be  confined  to  the  period  between  1886 
and  1916. 

AT  TWENTY-THIRD  STREET 
AND  BROADWAY 

Where  the  Avenue  and  Broadway  joined  in 
a  V,  there  was  in  the  old  days  a  one-storied 
building  with  shops,  one  among  them  famous 
for  the  sale  of  foreign  photographs,  and  what 
was  then  considered  a  tall  structure — the 


Cumberland,  where  there  were  bachelor  apart- 
ments and  offices.  The  huge  Flatiron  build- 
ing, like  a  giant  plow,  occupies  the  site  now 
and  even  it  has  long  ceased  to  be  a  wonder  and 
is  fast  settling  down  into  middle  age.  The 
Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  built  in  1858  and  opened 
by  Paran  Stevens,  is  replaced  by  the  Fifth 
Avenue  Building.  This  house  was  the  home 
of  the  famous  lights  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  its  Amen  Corner,  where  the  late  Senator 
Thomas  Piatt  and  his  political  friends  held 
out,  was  one  of  the  sights  of  the  city.  The 
hotel  itself  was  considered  the  very  last 
cry  in  magnificence  and  luxury  and  modern 
appointments.  On  the  plot  where  it  was 
built,  was  formerly  a  Hippodrome  with 
many  wooden  towers — the  circus  has  always 
been  faithful  to  Madison  Square — and  be- 
fore that  the  cottage  tavern  of  Corporal 
Thompson. 

The  former  visitor  to  New  York,  especially 
if  he  came  from  another  part  of  the  United 
States,  never  was  satisfied  until  he  could  have 
a  peep  at  the  maker  of  Presidents — the  senior 


€  \y  c    t)  t  s  t  o  r  }}    of    a    43  r  c  a  t    Z  \\  o  r  o  it  g  I)  f  a  r  c 


United  States  Senator  from  New  York.  Ii 
was  not  difficult.  There  was  hardly  an  even- 
ing when  Congress  was  not  in  session  that  the 
Senator  and  his  cronies  and  a  nunil  er  of  news- 
paper men  would  not  lie  found  in  the  famous 
seals  in  the  vestibule.  In  01  her  days,  i  lie  late 
James  G.  Blaine  was  a  frequent  visitor  to  the 
Filth  Avenue.  General  Sherman  was  also 
another  familiar  figure  there  as  were  President 
Harrison  and  President  McKinley. 

The  brownstone  shaft  which  marks  the  last 
resting  place  of  General  Worth,  a  hero  of  the 
Mexican  War,  is  still  here.  As  for  Madison 
Square  itselt,  that  would  he  another  story. 
The  heroine  of  the  native  poet  Butler's 
"Nothing  to  Wear,''  Miss  Flora  McFlimsey, 
was  supposed  to  live  here  in  the  late  fifties. 
The  dignified  row  of  chocolate  colored  houses 
with  high  stoops,  the  homes  of  the  late  Frank 
Work,  the  Townsend  Burdens,  the  Whitneys, 
the  Abercrombies,  the  Iselins,  the  O'Briens 
and  others  have  nearly  all  disappeared  as 
have  also  those  of  Miss  Catherine  Wolfe  and 
S.  L.  M.  Barlow  on  the  Madison  Avenue 
side. 


SOMF  M  KM  OR  IKS  OF  MADISON 
SQUARE 

In  the  Square  itself,  many  will  remember  a 
tall  sunburned  man  with  white  hair  and  beard, 
dressed  in  immaculate  linen,  seated  on  a  bench 
.uid  always  surrounded  by  children.  This 
was  George  Francis  Train,  the  agitator  and 
writer  who  made  an  independent  race  for 
President  of  the-  I'nited  States  in  1872  and 
who  was  declared  insane  afterwards  but  who 
seems  to  have  had  some  method  in  hi>  mad- 
ness. For  years,  he  lived  at  one  of  the  Mills 
Hotels  which  he  christened  "Mills  Palace" 
and  he  held  no  communication  with  anyone 
except  through  the  medium  of  children.  At 
Madison  Square  and  over  Fifth  Avenue  was 
the  famous  Dewey  Arch,  erected  for  the  occa- 
sion of  the  triumphant  entry  of  the  hero  of 
Manilla  Bay  into  New  York  in  1899.  It  was 
of  papier  mache.and  it  was  designed  to  be  per- 
petuated in  stone.  Public  sentiment  cooled, 
however,  and  when  it  was  decided  that  it 
would  be  a  menace  to  traffic  it  passed  into  his- 
tory. 


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Fifth  Avenue  looking  south  from 
from  an  old  prim 


wenty-nrsi  Street 


Perhaps  a  word  might  be  said  <>t  the  ( iarden, 
so  long  the  home  oi  the  National  Horse  Show  . 
In  1886,  it  was  a  veritable  old  barrack,  which 
had  been  used  at  one  time,  as  a  station  for  the 
Harlem  railroad  trains  and  horse  cars.  On  its 
site,  in  1X90,  was  built  the  present  structure 
designed  by  Stanford  White,  with  its  graceful 
tower  crowned  by  St.  Gaudens'  gilded  Diana. 
It  was  opened  with  a  summer  entertainment 


ot  ballet  and  the  engagement  of  the 
orchestra  of  Kdouard  Strauss  the 
Vienna  waltz  king.  For  another  de- 
cade, it  was  the-  meeting  place  of  soci- 
ety and  in  its  assembly  rooms  was 
given  the  ball  in  honor  of  the  Infanta 
Kulalia  on  her  visit  in  the  Columbus 
Centennial  year,  1892.  Here  also 
were  held  great  political  meetings  and 
Bryan  spoke  to  crowds  there  in  1896, 
in  1906  and  again  in  1915.  Cleveland 
and  Thurman,  Roosevelt  and  others 
have  made  addresses  in  the  same 
forum,  where  earlier  in  the  season, 
society  paid  homage  to  the  horse  and 
fashion.  It  was  on  its  roof  garden, 
that  its  architect  Stanford  White 
was  killed  by  Harry  Thaw. 
Squeezed  up  now  in  a  corner,  opposite  the 
Garden,  is  the  villa-like  home  of  the  late 
Leonard  Jerome,  now  occupied  by  the  Man- 
hattan Club.  It  has  been  a  home  for  several 
clubs,  among  them  the  University.  In  the 
house,  there  was  a  private  theatre,  where 
amateur  theatricals  were  given  and  where 
Mrs.  James  Brown  Potter  hrst  made  her  debut 
as  an  actress  in  "The  Russian  Honeymoon". 


The  Windsor  Arcade  occupying  the  eastern  side  of  Fifth  Avenue,  between  Forty-sixth  and  Forty-seventh 
Streets,  and  built  upon  the  site  of  the  old  Windsor  Hotel  after  its  destruction  by  fire.  This  building  was  taken 
down  a  few  years  ago  and  upon  the  northern  half  of  its  site  was  erected  W.  &  J.  Sloane's  new  building. 


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Leonard  Jerome,  was  t  lu- 
x-cry prince  of  entertainers 
but  his  heyday  was  before 
Eighty-six.  Winston  (  hurc- 
hill,  late  First  Lord  of  the 
Admiralty  is  his  grand- 
son. 

At  the  northeast  corner 
of  Twenty-sixth  Street  was 
the  Brunswick,  a  fashion- 
able and  comfortable  hotel 
in  the  fnid-Victorian  style. 
It  was  here  that  the  Coach- 
ing parade  assembled,  one 
of  the  brilliant  social  affairs 
of  t  he  springtide.  ( )n  t  he 
southwest  corner  was 
Delmonico's,  sedate,  sober  and  "elegant".  It 
was  the  restaurant  of  the  time,  and  had  moved 
with  each  epoch  in  the  development  oi  tin- 
town,  from  the  Bowling  Green.  The  late 
Ward  McAllister  established  the  Patriarchs 
here,  giving  several  handsome  balls  each  winter. 
In  fact  all  the  world  dined  and  danced  and 
celebrated  at  Delmonico's.  When  the  more 
formidable  rivals  of  its  glory  opened  farther 
up  town,  it  moved  to  its  present  abode  at 


Fifth  Avenue  looking  south  from   Thirty-first  Strict,  from  an  ol<l  print. 


Forty-fourth  Street.  Martin,  who  had  a 
French  table  d'hote  on  University  Place,  took 
Delmonico's  old  building  and  made  it  a  gor- 
geous resort  for  Bohemia.  The  owners  of  the 
property,  the  heirs  of  the  late  R.  W.  Mont- 
gomery, concluded  to  sell,  and  now  a  great 
business  building  is  on  its  site  and  there  is 
another  where  was  once  the  Brunswick. 
Mr.  Montgomery  bought  the  plot  seventy  or 
more  years  ago.    It  was  called  Montgomery's 


The  famous  old  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  at  Twenty-third  Street,  built  in  1859  and  razed  in  1908  to  permit  the  erection 
of  the  new  Fifth  Avenue  Building.  It  entertained  the  Prince  of  Wales  (afterward  Edward  VII),  Fmperor  Don  Pedro 
ot  Brazil,  Presidents  Lincoln  and  (  '.rant  and  hundreds  of  other  famous  people.  Senator  Thomas  C.  Piatt,  the  republi- 
can boss,  had  his  "Amen  Corner"  here. 


Old  Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  from  Forty-fourth  Street,  the  Hebrew  Temple  of  Emanu-El  at  Forty-third 
Street  in  the  right  foreground,  and  the  Roman  Catholic  Cathedral  of  St.  Patrick,  at  Fiftieth  Street,  minus  its  two 
lofty  spires  which  were  built  later,  in  the  middle  distance.    From  a  photograph  made  in  1879. 


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Folly  because  he  paid  what  was  considered  a 
large  sum  for  such  an  out  of  the  way  site.  This 
was  quite  under  SI ()(),()()().  Delmonico,  how- 
ever, paid  the  estate  a  rent  of  $80,000  a  year 
and  it  finally  brought  over  two  million. 

A  FAMOUS  FIFTH  AVENUE 
CHARACTER 

No  mention  of  I  )elmonico's  will  be  complel  e 
without  an  allusion  to  Frank  Work  who  lived 
in  the  brownstone  house  next  to  the  Brunswick 
Hotel  and  who  dined  so  frequently  at  this 
restaurant.  He  was  usually  alone  and  that 
was  one  of  his  fads.  In  the  rear  of  his  house 
was  his  stable,  a  most  luxurious  affair  and 
until  nearly  ninety  years  of  age,  he  drove  each 
day  his  team  of  trotters  up  the  Avenue  and 
through  the  Park.  Frank  Work  was  a  Wall 
Street  banker  who  had  made  several  fortunes. 
He  was  somewhat  of  a  rough  diamond  and  a 
character.  He  was  one  of  the  last  of  the 
millionaires  who  were  devoted  to  driving,  and 
he  and  William  H.  Vanderbilt  had  many 
speeding  contests  in  the  80's  behind  their 
teams  of  fast  trotters.  His  daughter  Mrs. 
Burke  Roche  kept  up  the  sporl  and  even  until 


very  recently  would  be  seen  in  the  afternoons 
in  a  road  cart  with  her  groom  beside  her.  But 
an  equipage  is  almost  a  rarity  on  the  Avenue 
these  days.  John  Mackay  the  bonanza  kin^, 
Tom  ( )chiltree  teller  of  Texas  yarns  and  jokes, 
Wright  Sanford  and  Hermann  Oelriehs  and 
Frederick  (iebhard,  the  fashionable  type  of 
the  man  about  town,  Berry  Wall,  king  of  the 
dudes,  Nat  Goodwin  the  comedian  and  main 
others — some  ghosts,  some  yet  hale  and  hearty 
— were  among  the  habitues  of  Delmonico's. 
And  in  a  place  by  a  Fifth  Avenue  window 
could  be  seen  for  hours  a  comfortable,  fat, 
middle-aged  couple,  eating  and  eating  and 
eating.  It  was  a  Frenchman  called  the 
Marquis  de  Croisic  and  his  wife,  an  American 
woman  who  had  a  fortune.  They  built  an 
apartment  house  opposite  Delmonico's  on  the 
northwest  side  and  later  tried  their  luck- 
when  fortunes  were  failing — at  hotel  keeping. 

Before  leaving  this  corner,  a  word  must  be 
said  to  the  glory  of  the  horse  and  the  delights 
of  coaching.  By  a  strange  fatality  within  a 
few  weeks  of  each  other  there  passed  away 
three  of  the  most  notable  whips  of  New  York, 
Col.  William  Jay,  president  of  the  Coaching 
Club  and  leader  in  all  its  parades,  Col.  Delancey 


The  home  of  A.  T.  Stewart,  New  York's  famous  old-time  drygoods  merchant,  at  Fifth  Avenue  and  Thirty-fourth 
Street;  it  was  an  Italian  marble  palace  and  cost  to  build  more  than  two  million  dollars.  Its  site,  which  faces  the 
W  aldorf-Astoria  Hotel  and  the  new  Altman  block,  is  now  occupied  by  the  handsome  and  ornamental  building  of  the 
Knickerbocker  Trust  Company. 


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Kane  who  ran  the  first  coach,  the  old  Tantivy, 
from  this  corner  to  New  Rochelle  on  a  daily 
trip  and  Alfred  Vandefbilt  who  revived  the 
glory  of  the  sport  later  and  brought  new  blood 
into  the  Coaching  Club.  The  meet  in  these 
latter  days  was  in  the  Park  near  the  Mall  or  at 
the  Metropolitan  Club  corner.  Coaching, how- 
ever, has  disappeared  from  the  Ne  w  York 
streets.  Mr.  Bauodoine  still  tools  one  up  and 
down  the  Avenue  during  the  Autumn  and 
Spring,  but  he  is  regarded  with  curiosity.  So 
also  have  vanished  the  handsome  equipages 
of  society,  always  identified  by  their  liveries. 
There  were  some  quaint  ones  also,  a  regular 
feature  of  the  day.  The  venerable  Mrs.  John 
Jay  drove  up  and  down  the  Avenue  in  an 
antiquated  carriage,  and  dressed  in  the  fashion 
of  the  fifties  until  recently.  Mrs.  Tighe  of 
Union  Square  in  an  ark  of  a  carriage,  with  two 
ancient  servitors  on  the  box,  and  her  bonnet 
and  gown  of  even  a  more  remote  period, 
appeared  each  afternoon  at  the  hour  ol 
four. 


THE  FATE  OF  SOME  OLD  MANSIONS 

Our  friends  will  note  the  change  in  the 
general  appearance  of  the  Avenue.  It  seems 
wider  and  lighter.  The  ordinance  requiring 
the  removal  of  stoops  and  steps  and  obstruc- 
tions generally  was  fought  by  many  of  the  old 
residents.  When  it  was  put  in  force,  it  looked 
as  if  the  street  had  been  struck  by  a  tidal  wave  . 
But  it  broadened  it  and  brought  in  the  sun- 
light and  many  of  the  residents  were  content 
to  sell  their  old  homes  at  high  prices. 

At  the  Holland  House  lived  Roscoe  ( 'onkling 
who  died  from  the  effects  of  a  cold  caught  on 
the  day  of  the  famous  blizzard  of  March  1888, 
when  he  fell  into  a  snowdrift  on  Union  Square. 
He  had  walked  to  and  from  the  Surrogate's 
Court,  as  that  day  was  fixed  for  the  opening  of 
the  Stewart  will  case,  in  which  he  was  one  of 
the  counsel. 

These,  with  a  few  exceptions,  have  all  gone 
— the  Hammersleys,  the  Mortimers,  the  Laws, 
Mrs.  ParanStevens.Mrs.FrederickCoodridge's 
with  its  garden,  the  Livingstons,  and  a  score 


Old  Fifth  Avenue  looking  south  from  Thirty-fourth  Street,  showing  the  Waldorf  Hotel,  on  the  corner  of  Thirty- 
third  Street,  occupying  the  site  of  the  former  residence  of  William  Waldorf  Astor.  The  building  at  the  extreme  right 
was  the  handsome  brown  stone  residence  of  John  Jacob  Astor,  where  was  later  built  the  Astoria  Hotel,  the  two  struc- 
tures now  being  connected  and  known  as  the  Waldorf-Astoria. 


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of  others.  There  is  more  variegated  architec- 
ture employed  even  in  this  locality,  while 
above  Thirty-fourth  Street  there'  is  a  series  of 
huge  white  marble  and  stone  palaces.  The 
Calumet  Club  on  the  northeast  corner  of 
Twenty-ninth,  opposite  the  Marble  Collegiate 
Church  occupied  two  houses  thrown  into  one. 
Until  recently  it  stood,  ivy  clad,  a  dignified 
landmark  of  the  past.  It  is  now  in  its  new 
home  on  West  Fifty-sixth  Street.  The 
Knickerbocker,  now  at  Sixty-second  Street, 
had  the  Moller  residence  at  the  corresponding 
corner  at  Thirty-second  Street. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  Avenue,  in  the  block 
between  Thirty-third  and  Thirty-fourth 
Streets,  stood  the  twin  residences  of  the  late 
John  Jacob  and  William  Astor,  sons  of 
William  B.  Astor  and  grandsons  of  the  founder 
of  the  fortunes  of  the  family.  William  B.  Astor 
had  acquired  a  large  tract  of  property  in  this 
vicinity,  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century. 
The  houses  were  completed  for  occupancy  in 
1872.  and  it  was  at  the  home  of  his  son  John 
Jacob  that  he  died  in  1874.  In  1890,  John 
Jacob  died  and  his  son  William  Waldorf  Astor 


who  had  decided  to  live  abroad,  tore  down  the 
house  and  built  t  here  I  he  Waldorf  Hotel.  This 
was  opened  in  189.}  and  it  created  a  social 
revolution  in  New  York.  Madison  Square 
was  pronounced  downtown  and  Delmonico 
moved  to  Forty-fourth  Street.  A  few  years 
afterwards,  Mrs.  William  Astor,  the  mother 
of  the  late  Col.  John  Jacob  Astor  and  grand- 
mother of  Vincent  Astor,  gave  up  her  house 
which  had  been  the  scene  of  much  splendid 
entertaining  and  the  Astoria  was  erected  on 
its  site  and  in  1895,  tin-  Waldorf-Astoria  the 
largest  and  most  magnificent  hotel  of  its  day 
in  New  York,  came  into  existence. 

SOME  CHRONICLES  OF  THE 
ASTOR  FAMILY 

Nearly  every  day  in  the  year,  except  in  mid- 
summer, a  portly,  well  bearing,  middle  aged 
gentleman  could  be  met  on  the  Avenue  in  the 
morning  going  downtown  and  in  the  evening 
returning.  He  was  like  clock  work  and  men 
set  their  watches  by  him.  Main-  took  him  to 
bean  Englishman.    He  had  the  hale,  bluff  ap- 


()1<1  Filth  Avenue  looking  south  from  Thirty-sixth  Street ;  on  the  corner  of  Thirty-fifth  Street  stood  the  New  York 
Club,  since  removed  and  its  site  occupied  by  a  large  business  building  housing  Maillards  and  others.  While  lower 
dowii  are  shown  the  old  Stewart  mansion  and  the  completed  world  famous  W  aldorf-Astoria  Hotel 


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pearance  of  a  retired  army  officer.  This  was 
John  Jacob  Astor,  the  father  of  William  Waldorf 
Astor.  Mr.  Astor  always  walked  to  and  from 
his  offices  which  at  one  time  were  in  Prince 
Street  but  in  later  years  in  West  Twenty-sixth. 
He  called  himself  for  many  years,  John  Jacob 
Astor,  Jr.,  because  there  was  an  uncle,  an 
invalid,  named  after  the  original  John  Jacob 
who  lived  to  a  ripe  old  age.  Mr.  Astor  served 
gallantly  in  the  Civil  War.  He  was  a  culti- 
vated and  scholarly  man  with  courtly  manners. 
His  father  William  B.  Astor  was  educated 
abroad  and  his  mother  was  Miss  Alida  Arm- 
strong, member  of  an  old  Knickerbocker 
family.  He  married  a  Miss  Gibbes,  the 
granddaughter  of  Mr.  Vanden  Heuvel,  one  of 
New  York's  first  wealthy  Dutch  merchants  of 
Colonial  da\ rs. 

His  brother  William  Astor  who  lived  in  the 
house  at  Thirty-fourth  Street  and  Fifth 
Avenue  was  more  of  a  sportsman  and  was 
devoted  to  yachting.  His  son,  the  late  Col. 
John  Jacob  Astor,  continued  the  family 
practice  of  walking  to  the  offices  of  the  estate, 
which  is  now  divided  into  two  separate  cor- 
porations, even  after  he  had  moved  to  his  new 


home  on  upper  Fifth  Avenue.  Once  in  a 
while  he  drove  down  in  a  buggy,  of  an  antique 
pattern  and  more  latterly  in  a  motor,  but 
when  he  was  in  town,  he  never  missed  this 
pilgrimage. 

On  the  northwest  corner  of  Thirty-fourth 
Street  is  also  historic  ground.  Here  in  the 
fifties,  Dr.  Townsend,  the  sarsaparilla  king, 
built  a  residence  which  was  a  wonder.  It  was 
said  to  cost  with  the  ground  over  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars  and  it  was  frequently  open 
for  public  inspection.  After  his  death  the 
property  at  a  much  advanced  price  passed  into 
the  possession  of  the  rich  drygoods  merchant, 
A.  T.  Stewart.  Here  he  built  his  marble 
palace,  as  it  was  called,  costing  over  a  million. 
He  died  there  and  the  stealing  of  his  body 
from  St.  Mark's  churchyard  and  the  subse- 
quent litigation  over  the  will  of  his  widow  are 
familiar  to  everyone.  Then  the  Manhattan 
Club  leased  the  place,  but  their  stay  was  con- 
fined to  a  few  years.  It  was  torn  down  and 
the  Knicke  rbocker  Trust  Building  now  stands 
on  its  site.  At  the  Thirty-fifth  Street  corner, 
the  Xew  York  Club  had  a  beautiful  home 
which  they  occupied  for  about  fifteen  years 


Old  Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  from  Thirty-fifth  Street:  on  the  extreme  left  a  portion  of  the  New  York  Club's 
former  house;  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Thirty-fifth  Street  now  stands  the  lofty  new  building  of  Best  &  Co.,  and 
beyond  it  many  more  lofty  business  blocks,  including  those  of  the  Gorham  Co.,  Lord  &  Taylor  and  other  famous  firms. 


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when  it  was  sold  and  the  property  occupied  by 
large  shops.  Opposite,  tin- entire  block  is  now 
taken  by  the  great  Allinan  store,  where  there 
were  the  homes  of  the  (iordon  Norries,  the 
Gris wolds,  George  Bend  and  Christ  Church, 
and  on  Madison  Avenue  several  of  the  many 
Astor  residences.  All  up  Murray  Hill,  as  this 
elevation  is  called,  and  on  the  side  streets, 
were  these  red  brick  and  grey  stone  mansions, 
occupied  by  the  descendants  of  the  original 
John  Jacob  Astor,  the  stone  being  quarried 
from  near  Red  Hook,  on  a  family  estate.  One 
of  the  last  of  the  stately  homes  of  the 
eighties  was  that  of  Mrs.  Louis  Hoyt,  at  the 
northeast  corner  of  Thirty-sixth  Street  and 
facing  it  is  the  Astor  Trust  and  offices  of 
The  Spur,  formerly  the  residence  of  Pierre 
Lorillard. 

Murray  Hill  itself,  once  the  site  of  the 
Murray  farm  and  of  Mrs.  Coventry  Waddell's 
Italian  villa  where  Thackeray  was  entertained, 
has  proved  a  bonanza  for  real  estate  speculators. 
The  boom  lasted  a  few  years,  and  in  its  dura- 
tion frontage  blocks  were  assessed  in  the  mil- 
lions. Tiffany,  Lord  ei:  Taylor  and  other  well 
known  firms  built  superb  emporiums  on  the 
site  of  the  old  residences  and  the  owners  of  the 
land  reaped  immense  fortunes.    One  lady  who 


had  a  small  house,  had  determined  to  live 
there  the  rest  of  her  days.  It  was  on  Fifth 
Avenue  and  she  had  valued  it  at  a  little  over 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  She  was  so 
harrassed  by  the  dealers  with  one  bidding 
higher  than  the  other,  that  she  was  forced  to 
leave,  selling  for  $600,000.  I  li  re  was  Governor 
Morgan's  home,  afterwards  owned  by  the 
Lewis  family,  at  Last  Thirty-seventh  Street 
with  its  rear  garden  ;  James-Gordon  Bennett's 
home,  and  the  former  residence  of  W  illiam  H. 
Vanderbill,  at  Last  Thirty-ninth,  of  the  tradi- 
tional brownstone,  and  in  its  day,  one  of  the 
most  admired  on  the  Avenue.  Mr.  Vander- 
bill built  the  twin  houses  at  West  Fifty- 
first  and  Fifty-second  Streets  and  gave  hi> 
home  as  a  wedding  present  to  Mrs.  Seward 
Webb,  one  of  his  daughters,  but  later  it  wa9 
transferred  to  Frederick  Vanderbilt,  and  a 
house  was  built  for  Mrs.  Webb  farther  up 
town. 

The  home  of  the  late  John  ( i.  Wendel  on  t  he 
northwest  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Thirty- 
ninth  Street  still  stands,  for  the  Wendels  never 
sell.  They  are  relatives  of  the  Astors.  In 
the  rear  is  a  yard  worth  a  million  dollars 
which  was  kept  it  is  said  to  give  exercise  room 
for  a  pet  dog. 


Old  Rutgers  Female  College,  Fifth  Avenue  and  Forty-first  Street,  the  first  institution  in  New  York  C  ity  for  the 
higher  education  of  girls;  its  site,  which  faces  the  new  Public  Library,  is  now  occupied  by  the  uptown  building  ol 
Rogers,  Peet  &  Co. 


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THE  GREAT  CHANGES 
AT  FORTY-SECOND 
STREET 

The  Public  Library  is  a 
most  modern  acquisition. 
It  stands  where  was  the  old 
Croton  Aqueduct ,  a  gloomy 
affair  fashioned  like  an 
Egyptian  tomb.  It  was  the 
first  large  aqueduct  New 
York  ever  possessed,  and 
here  until  nearly  the  sixties 
wastheend  of  Fifth  Avenue 
proper.  The  rest  was  not  h- 
ing  but  a  country  street 
with  road  houses  and  a  few 
residences.  Some  of  the  former,  notably  the 
Willow  Tree  near  Forty-fourth  Street,  re- 
mained until  a  short  time  ago. 

Our  William  D.  Howells'  couple  may  have 
wondered  at  the  constant  stream  of  traffic  up 
and  down  the  Avenue,  principally  motors, 
and  experienced  the  difficulty  of  crossing.  In 
1886,  even  here  at  the  junction  of  Forty-second 


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Rutgers  Institute  on  left,  the  Reservoir  on  right,  at  Fifth 
Avenue  and  Forty-second  Street. 


Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  it  was  like  the  main 
street  of  a  village.  They  look  for  a  stage,  the 
lumbering  antiquated  ark  drawn  by  decrepit 
horses.  These  have  passed  away  with  the 
brownstone  houses  and  the  provincial  cus- 
toms of  another  day.  Here  are  the  high 
motor  busses,  with  their  upper  decks  crowded 
with  passengers.    Our  old-fashioned  friends 


The  old  Murray  Hill  Reservoir,  which  occupied  the  easterly  portion  of  Bryant  Park  and  faced  upon  Fifth  Avenue 
extending  from  Fortieth  to  Forty-second  Streets;  it  was  demolished  in  1900  to  make  room  for  the  New  York  Publi: 
Library,  which  was  built  upon  its  site. 


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mighl  be  fearsome  now  to  leave  the  sidewalk, 
and  stand  bewildered  at  the  coping,  lint 
behold  the  l rathe  policeman,  mounted  on  a 
well  groomed  nag,  and  holding  up  the  traffic 
for  them  with  a  wave  of  his  \vhite-glo\  ed  hand. 
There  was  little  need  for  him  in  1886. 

The  assessed  valuation  recently  from  Forty- 
second  to  Sixtieth  Street  on  both  sides  ol  the 
Avenue  is  SI  10, 727,000  an  average  of  over  six 
millions  for  each  of  the  eighteen  blocks. 
According  to  a  newspaper  statistician,  the 
Value  oi  the  hotels  now  on  this  land  would 
more  than  pay  the  national  debt. 

The  northwest  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and 
Forty-second  Street  was  bought  by  Peter 
C.oelet  in  1845  for  $4,850.     It  is  now  owned 


by  Mrs.  Klbridge  T.  deny  who  married  his 
nephew.  The  Bristol  Hotel,  Forty-second 
Street  and  Fifth  Avenue,  has  been  changed 
and  converted  into  an  <  ftice  building.  This 
corner  100  feet  on  the  Avenue  and  125  on 
the  street— is  assessed  for  $1,850,000.  The 
price  paid  tor  the  entire  block  in  1845  was 
$9,200.    It  is  now  held  at  over  $8,000,000. 

1'assing  at  Forty-third  Street  by  the  site  of 
the  former  residence  ol  William  X.  Tweed 
which  was  later  owned  by  heirs  of  Richard  T. 
Wilson,  one  reaches  another  historic  point. 
It  is  the  plot  occupied  by  Windsor  Arcade 
owned  by  Klbridge  T.  Curry  and  on  the 
Madison  Avenue  side,  by  the  famous  Ritz- 
Carlton  Hotel,  built  by  Robert  Goelet.  This 


Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  from  Forty-fourth  Street,  showing  thr  Hebrew  Temple  of  Kmann-KI  in  the  right  fore- 
ground ;  this  is  a  very  typical  view  of  the  exclusively  resident  ial  character  of  upper  I'ifl  h  \\  enue  as  it  appeared  during 
the  last  decade  of  the  nineteenth  century. 


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entire  block  front  was  bought  by  Peter  ( '.oelet 
in  1845  for  $9,200.  It  is  valued  now  at  about 
$8,000,000.  Here  was  the  Windsor  Hotel,  a 
rambling  old  fashioned  affair,  but  considered 
in  its  time,  one  of  the  best  in  New  York.  It 
was  the  pioneer  of  the  uptown  hostelries.  On 
St.  Patrick's  day  in  1899,  while  the  procession 
was  passing,  it  caught  fire  and  it  burned  so 
quickly  that  before  aid  could  reach  it,  a  large 
number  of  lives  were  lost. 

THE  GOULDS  AND  THE  AVENUE 

At  Forty-seventh  Street  and  Fifth  Avenue 
on  the  northeast  corner  is  the  residence  of 
Mrs.  Finley  J.  Shepard,  more  generally  known 
as  Helen  Gould,  the  eldest  daughter  of  the  late 
Jay  Gould.  This  was  the  house  in  which  her 
father  passed  his  last  years  and  in  which  he 


died,  a  comparatively  young  man.  The 
Goulds  lived  formerly  on  Union  Square.  Like 
many  celebrities,  Jay  Gould  was  a  little  man. 
He  always  dressed  in  a  most  unassuming, 
rather  shabby  manner  although  more  dapper 
than  his  friend,  Uncle  Russell  Sage,  who  was  a 
neighbor.  The  late  Governor  Russell  F. 
Flower,  politician  and  millionaire,  and  his 
brother  Anson  R.  Flower  lived  between  Forty- 
eighth  and  Forty-ninth  Streets  and  owned 
much  of  the  property  in  this  vicinity. 

At  the  northwest  corner  of  Fiftieth  Street, 
just  opposite  the  Cathedral,  was  the  home  of 
the  late  Benjamin  Altman,  the  great  mer- 
chant, philanthropist  and  art  collector.  In 
the  rear  he  had  built  a  gallery  where  his  fa- 
mous collection  of  the  old  masters  were  hung. 
At  his  death,  they  were  bequeathed  to  the 
Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art.    On  this  same 


The  Fifth  Avenue  Market  and  "Ye  Olde  Willow  Cottage,"  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Forty- 
fourth  Street,  now  the  site  of  the  American  Real  Estate  Company's  building.  The  cottage  named  for  the  great  willow 
tree  which  formerly  stood  before  it,  was  originally  known  as  Willow  Tree  Inn,  and  was  run  at  one  time  by  Tom  Hyer, 
the  famous  pugilist. 


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block  lived  the  late  Russell  Sage  and  the  late 
D.  O.  Mills,  two  powers  in  the  financial  world 
and  the  latter  the  founder  of  the  Mills  I  iotels. 
The  valuation  of  the  Cathedral  and  its  site 
has  been  placed  at  $7,000,000. 

On  the  west  side  of  the  Avenue,  between 
Fifty-first  and  Fifty-second  Streets  are  tin- 
famous  Vanderbilt  twin  houses.  It  is  told 
that  the  entire  plot  was  once  owned  by  the 
late  Henry  Keep,  president  of  the  Lake  Shore 
Railroad.  He  bought  it  for  $250,000.  Oppo- 
site him  on  the  east  side  of  the  Avenue,  the 
Roman  Catholic  Diocese  built  an  Orphanage. 
It  was  a  drab  structure  and  long  an  eyesore  to 
the  neighborhood.  Mr.  Keep  concluded  to 
give  his  property  to  some  institution.  He 
held  on  to  it  however  for  a  long  period.  The 
value  increased  almost  400  percent  and  when 
William  H.  Vanderbill  w  anted  a  Fifth  Avenue 
site,  he  sold  it  to  him  for  $1,000,000.  Mr. 


Vanderbilt,  like  Mr.  Astor,  had  an  interest  in 
a  quarry.  His  was  brown  freestone,  and 
although  Richard  Hunt  the  architect  had 
specified  white  marble,  the  houses  were  con- 
structed from  "home"  materials.  Mr.  V.m- 
derbilt  had  his  gallery  of  paintings  in  the 
Fifty-first  Street  house,  and  at  one  time  the 
public  w.is  allowed  on  certain  days  to  view 
them.  It  was  in  this  house  that  he  died  in 
1885.  It  was  left  to  his  youngest  son  Ocorge, 
and  in  default  of  a  male  heir,  it  was  inherited 
by  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  who  intends  to  reside 
there.  For  a  time,  it  was  leased  by  Henry  C. 
Frick,  the  steel  magnate. 

The  late  W  illiam  H.  Vanderbilt  was  a  great 
lover  of  horses  and  it  was  he  who  first  intro- 
duced the  custom  of  fast  driving  teams  and 
thirty-five  years  ago,  he  was  a  familiar  figure 
on  the  Avenue,  starting  out  for  the  afternoon 
behind  Maud  S.  and  Aldine,  or  the  latter  and 


The  Old  Windsor  Hotel  which  stood  on  the  cast  side  of  Fifth  Avenue  between  Forty-sixth  and  Forty-seventh 
Streets; it  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire  on  the  17th  of  March,  1900,  while  a  St.  Patrick's  Day  parade  was  passing  and 
the  streets  were  thronged  with  spectators.  The  new  building  of  W.  &  J.  Sloane  now  occupies  t  he  upper  corner  of  this 
site  supplanting  the  W  indsor  Arcade. 


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Early  Rose.  The  succeeding  generation  of 
Vanderbilts  cared  little  for  horses  and  the  love 
of  the  sport  was  revived  by  his  grandson  the 
late  Alfred  Vanderbilt.  Col.  Elliott  Shepard 
who  lived  in  the  upper  Vanderbilt  house,  was 
the  owner  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  stage  line.  He 
married  the  eldest  daughter  of  Mr.  Vanderbilt 
and  later  bought  the  Mail  and  Express  and  had 
a  text  from  the  Bible  each  day  on  its  editorial 
page.  The  late  William  D.  Sloane  married 
Miss  Leila  Vanderbilt  and  the  two  families 
occupied  the  same  residence  for  a  long  time. 

SOME  OF  THE  VANDERBILT 
RESIDENCES 
The  Orphanage  was  later  put  in  the  market 
and  the  shabby  building  was  demolished. 


The  Vanderbilts  were  determined  that  the 
immediate  vicinity  of  their  homes  should  not 
be  invaded  by  business.  The  Union  Club 
moving  from  Fifth  Avenue  and  Twenty-first 
Street  bought  the  northeast  corner  of  Fifty- 
first  Street,  a  plot  of  175  feet  and  their 
beautiful  club  house  designed  for  them  by 
John  Dufais  was  built  there.  The  Vanderbilts 
immediately  purchased  the  rest  of  the  property 
for  §1,000,000  and  on  it  are  two  marble  resi- 
dences, one  occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  B.  O.  Field.  Mrs.  Field  was  Miss  Lila 
Sloane,  whose  mother  was  a  Vanderbilt. 
Morton  F.  Plant  is  the  owner  of  the  large 
house  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Fifty-second 
Street. 


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Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  from  Forty-eighth  Street  in  the  early  nineties,  after  the  lofty  twin  spires  were  added  to 
St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  but  before  the  construction  of  the  Knickerbocker  and  University  Club  buildings  and  the 
St.  Regis  and  Gotham  Hotels  a  few  blocks  above. 


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Columbia  College,  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Forty-ninth 
Street,  from  an  old  prim. 


The  new  Union  Club  has  not  many  reminis- 
cences. It  passed  through  the  most  interest- 
ing part  of  its  history  in  the  old  building  at 
Fifth  Avenue  and  Twenty-first  Street.  When 
James  Gordon  Bennett,  the  proprietor  of  the 
Herald  comes  to  New  York,  he  can  usually  be 
seen  walking  on  Fifth  Avenue  to  the  club. 
Formerly  he  kept  his  New  York  apartment  on 


Twenty-first  Street. 
Now  he  has  had  it 
moved  in  i  he  vicinity  of 
the  club  in  one  of  i  he 
Fifties.  Mr.  Bennett's 
visits  to  New  York  are 
much  less  frequent  than 
in  former  years.  The 
present  president,  Mr. 
Augustus  Schermer- 
horn,  is  a  bachelor  and 
a  member  of  an  historic 
family.  He  lives  on 
University  Place  in  ,i 
great  red  brickdu  elling, 
the  last  of  theresidences 
in  that  part  of  town. 
John  Pierpont  Morgan 
is  a  governor  of  the 
Union  Club  and  is  seen  there  frequently.  His 
father  who  was  also  a  member  preferred  the 
Metropolitan  which  he  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  organizing.  Neither  of  the  Morgans, 
however,  has  ever  been  a  familiar  figure  on 
the  Avenue. 

Club  life  has  changed  in  the  last  decade. 
There  are  a  few  new  clubs  and  the  older  or- 


Old  Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  from  Fifty-third  Street,  showing  the  old  St.  Luke's  Hospital  which  formerly 
occupied  the  block  on  the  west  side  of  the  Avenue  between  Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty-fifth  Streets,  and  beyond  it,  on  the 
northwest  corner  of  Fifty-fifth  Street,  the  Fifth  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  whose  pulpit  was  long  occupied  by 
Dr.  John  Hall. 


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ganizations  with  the  exception  of  the 
Knic  kerbocker  have  preferred  to  take  site^ 
in  the  quieter  side  streets.  The  University 
on  the  site  of  the  old  hospital  at  Fifty- 
fourth  Street  moved  from  Madison  Square 
fifteen  years  ago.  The  Lotos,  where  din- 
ners were  given  to  all  the  great  literary 
celebrities  and  visiting  lions,  was  at  556 
Fifth  Avenue  but  is  now  in  a  building  of 
its  own  on  West  Fifty-seventh  Street. 
The  late  Ambassador  to  England,  Whitelaw 
Reid,  was  one  of  its  first  presidents  and 
his  memory  is  also  intimately  connected 
with  the  Union  League. 

The  newer  Fifth  Avenue  has  never  been 
associated  with  the  theatrical  world  for 
the  reason  that  it  is  the  one  great  street 
in  New  York  on  which  there  has  never 
been  a  theatre.     The  old  Fifth  Avenue 
theatre  is  on  Broadway.    Now  and  then 
such  great  stars  as  the  late  Henry  Irving 
or  ("oquelin  would  be  seen  coming  from  the 
Lotos  or  the  Union,  at  which  they  were  put  up 
as  guests.   The  late  Edwin  Booth  kept  close  to 
the  more  literary  atmosphere  of  Gramercy 
Park  where  the  Players  is  located.  John  Drew 
is  probably  the  only  Thespian  whom  one 


"Marble  Row,"  residence  built  in  1871  by  Mrs.  Mary- 
Mason  Jones  on  northeast  corner  of  Fifty-seventh  Street, 
later  a  part  of  the  Paran  Stevens  estate. 


associates  with  the  Avenue,  but  he  does  not 
belong  to  the  Union  or  the  University. 

THE  BUSINESS  INVASION 
At  the  white  marble  chateau  of  W  illiam  K. 
Vanderbilt  on  the  northwest  corner  of  Fifty- 


Old  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  on  the  west  side  of  Fifth  Avenue  between  Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty-fifth  Streets.  In  the 
"nineties"  a  new  St.  Luke's  Hospital  was  built  on  Morningside  Heights,  opposite  the  Protestant-Episcopal  Cathedral 
of  St.  John  the  Divine,  and  the  old  hospital  was  demolished,  the  new  building  of  the  Graduates'  Club  being  erected 
upon  its  site. 


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second  Street  the  famous  fancy  ball  was  given 
in  the  spring  of  1883.  At  the  southwest  corner 
of  Fifty-third  Street  was  the  Frederic  ( iallal in 
mansion  which  to  the  surprise  of  many,  was 
given  over  to  trade  about  eight  years  ago  and 
was  leased  by  an  automobile  concern.  It 
eventually  made  way  for  a  commercial  build- 
ing. Above  St.  Thomas'  Church  which  has 
recently  been  completed  after  the  original 
structure  was  burned  down  and  which  a  half 
century  since  was  at  the  corner  of  Houston 
and  Broadway,  are  two  more  Yandcrbill 
houses,  gifts  of  W  illiam  H.  to  his  daughters, 
Mrs.  H.  McK.  Twombly  and  Mrs.  W.  Seward 
Webb.  The  Webbs  have  capitulated.  Like 
the  Gallatins,  their  children  are  all  married, 
and  the  house  is  too  large  for  them.  Thus  has 
the  Vanderbilt  stronghold  been  attacked  from 
both  the  north  and  the  south.  Business  is  to 
the  right  and  to  the  left  of  them. 

Almost  until  the  beginning  of  this  century, 
the  entire  block  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Avenue,  between  Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty-fifth 
Streets  was  a  relreshing  green  oasis  in  the 
midst  of  brick  and  mortar.     Here  was  St. 


Luke's  Hospital, a  plain,  comtortable  building 
not  without  a  certain  homely  charm,  set  in  a 
garden  of  shrubs  and  venerable  trees.  The 
lawn  was  always  well  kept  and  in  the  spring 
time,  there  were  lilacs  and  (lowering  bushes 
and  later  roses.  TI.e  convalescent  patients 
would  be  camped  out  in  the  garden  on  fine 
days  and  although  there  was  a  note  ol  pathos 
of  pain  about  the  old  place,  it  was  a  grateful 
bit  of  rus  in  urbe.  The  University  Club  and 
the  Gotham  Hotel,  two  huge  strikingly  ornate 
buildings,  now  occupy  the  site. 

Former  Vice  President  Levi  P.  Morton  has 
given  up  his  home  on  the  east  side  of  the 
Avenue  and  where  it  stood  is  a  tall  white 
marble  skyscraper. 

On  the  east  side  from  Fifty-fourth  to  Fifty- 
seventh  Streets,  bounded  by  Fifth  and  Park 
Avenues,  is  the  John  Mason  tract,  which  has 
furnished  so  much  litigation  during  the  past 
fifty  years.  Mr.  Mason,  a  founder  of  the 
Chemical  Bank,  bought  it  and  some  adjacent 
land  farther  north  from  the  City  about  a 
century  ago.  Three  of  the  plots,  each  200  by 
950  feet,   were  obtained   for  82,500.  This 


The  first  Pkiza  Hotel  at  Fifth  Avenue  and  Fifty-ninth  Street,  was  not  exactly  an  old  New  York  hotel  for  it  was  not 
built  until  1890,  its  site  having  been  earlier  occupied  as  a  private  skating  rink.  The  present  Plaza  Hotel,  which  occu- 
pies the  same  site,  is  said  to  have  cost  nearly  t  welve  million  dollars  to  build,  furnish  and  equip. 


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averages  $10  a  city  lot.  Today  the  assessed 
land  value  of  these  eight  blocks  is  over 
$55,000,000  while  the  Fifth  Avenue  frontage  is 
on  the  tax  books  for  $20,000,000.  Mr.  Mason 
died  in  1839  cutting  off  in  his  will  a  son  who 
married  a  popular  actress  and  a  daughter  the 
wife  of  a  Mr.  Alston.  Another  daughter  was 
Mrs.  A.  Gordon  Hamersley  and  three  others 
had  married  into  the  Jones  family.  The  will 
was  broken  in  1854,  and  the  property  divided. 
The  Colfords,  Masons  and  Isaac  Jones  and 
some  of  their  relatives  have  had  their  resi- 
dences there.  Louis  C.  Hamersley,  a  grand- 
son, had  a  good  portion  of  the  first  block 
between  Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty-fifth  Streets, 
and  he  sold  the  upper  corner  plot  to  the  late 
Col.  John  Jacob  Astor  who  built  there  the 
splendid  St.  Regis  Hotel.  This  was  the 
Hamersley  who  married  Miss  Jane  Lillian 
Price  of  Troy.  She  afterwards  became 
Duchess  of  Marlborough  and  finally  the  wife 
of  Lord  William  Beresford.  Louis  Hamersley 
also  left  a  curious  will  which  has  been  in  litiga- 


tion for  many  years  and  is  a  cause  as  celebrated 
as  the  familiar  Jarndyce  vs.  Jarndyce. 

SOME  FAMOUS  SOCIETY  FUNCTIONS 

On  the  northeast  corner  of  Fifty-seventh 
Street  and  the  Avenue,  opposite  the  grim 
castle  of  Mrs.  Henry  Huntington  and  the 
French  chateau  of  Mrs.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt, 
is  the  home  of  Mrs:  Hermann  Oelrichs,  who 
was  Miss  Theresa  Fair,  the  daughter  of 
James  G.  Fair,  one  of  the  bonanza  kings.  It 
was  here  that  her  sister.  Miss  Virginia  Fair, 
was  married  to  William  K.  Vanderbilt,  Jr.,  in 
1898.  The  historic  interest  of  the  house 
centres  in  its  first  owner  and  its  subsequent 
occupants,  Mrs.  Mary  Mason  Jones  and  Mrs. 
Paran  Stevens.  Mrs.  Jones  was  one  of  the 
Mason  heirs  and  she  built  the  house  and  the 
row  of  white  marble  residences  adjoining,  most 
of  which  have  been  owned  l,y  her  descendants. 
She  was  the  first  woman  in  New  York  to  have 
a  salon  and  she  w<as  the  Egeria  of  the  first  half 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  when  her  home  was 


The  Lenox  Library,  now  occupied  by  the  residence  of  Henry  C.  Frick,  was  designed  by  the  celebrated  architect, 
Richard  M.  Hunt,  and  built  for  James  Lenox,  in  which  were  kept  the  priceless  Lenox  collections  of  art  and  literature 
until  these  were  transferred  to  the  new  building  of  the  New  York  Public  Library. 


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in  Broadway  near  Astor  Plato.  When  she 
died,  a  very  old  woman,  Mrs.  Paran  Stevens, 
the  mother  of  Lady  Paget,  teased  the  house 
and  she  too  entertained  there  on  an  elaborate 
scale.  Her  Sunday  evening  entertainments 
were  novelties  and  especially  successful.  She 
died  suddenly  in  this  house  and  it  then  was 
bought  by  the  late  Hermann  Oelrichs  and  his 
wife.     Now  the  Jones  descendants  arc  erect- 


Fifth  Avenue  Sunday  morning  parade  in  Civil  War  time,  from  an  old  prim 


ing  seven  and  nine  story  bachelor  apartments 
in  two  places  in  the  block,  and  thus  disappears 
another  landmark. 

On  the  southwest  corner  there  stood  an 
Italian  villa  which  was  built  when  the  neigh- 
borhood was  still  semi-suburban,  by  Mr. 
Frederick  Stevens,  whose  wife  was  Miss  Adele 
Sampson,  the  daughter  of  a  wealthy  banker. 
There  was  a  marital  disagreement  and  a 
divorce  and  Mrs.  Stevens  became  the  Duchess 
de  Dino.  The  house  was  bought  by  a  relative 
as  a  gift  to  Mrs.  W  illiam  C,  Whitney,  wife  of 


the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  in  the  first  Cleve- 
land cabinet.  Mrs.  W  hitney  was  Flora  Payne 
the  daughter  of  a  Standard  Oil  Magnate. 
Here  for  years,  the  Whitneys,  who  had  added 
to  the  house,  entertained  on  a  lavish  scale. 
Eventually,  after  the  death  of  the  first 
Mrs.  Whitney,  it  was  transferred  to  their 
eldest  son  Harry  Payne  Whitney  who  married 
Miss  Gertrude  Vanderbilt,  a  daughter  of 
Mr. and  Mrs. Cornelius 
Yanderbill  who  lived 
in  i he  great  French 
chateau  just  opposite. 
The  prophecies  con- 
cerning Fifty-seventh 
Street  are  being  real- 
ized. Business  has  es- 
tablished itself  in  the 
last  wide  residential 
street  south  of  the  Park. 
It  is  true  that  it  is  of 
the  highest  classand  the 
thoroughfare  promises 
to  become  a  second 
Rue  de  la  Paix.  Mr. 
Harry  Payne  Whitney 
has  purchased  the 
splendid  house,  871 
Fifth  Avenue  which  his 
father  bought  about  fif- 
teen years  ago  and  then 
sold  to  the  late  James 
Henry  Smith.  The  old 
Stevens  villa  hasshared 
the  fate  of  many  an- 
ol  lu  r  New  York  home. 
It  exists  no  longer  and 
there  is  a  temporary 
business  structure  in 
its  place. 

At  the  Vanderbilt 
chateau,  Miss  Gladys  Vanderbilt  was  married 
to  the  Count  Szechenyi.  Many  splendid 
entertainments  have  been  given  in  this 
beautiful  house,  and  shadows  have  fallen  on 
its  threshold.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  died  here 
and  in  its  great  drawing  rooms  was  held  the 
memorial  service  for  the  second  son,  Alfred, 
who  was  lost  on  the  ill-fated  I.usitania. 

At  the  gateway  of  the  Park  is  the  Plaza 
Hotel,  a  superb  structure  and  an  integral  factor 
in  the  fashionable  life  of  the  metropolis.  It 
was  not  so  long  ago  that  another  hotel  of  the 


£i)c    ^  i  g  t  o  r  p    of    a    ^5  r  t  a  t  thoroughfare 


same  name  was  (  n  the  same  site.  It  had  a 
history  born  of  litigation  among  the  heirs  of 
millionaire  tobacconist  Anderson,  and  it  re- 
mained unoccupied  for  years.  Then  it  had  a 
comparatively  brief  term  of  existence.  It 
was  a  huge  barn  and  its  disappearance  was  a 
matter  of  congratulation. 

UPPER  FIFTH  AVENUE 

Above  Sixtieth  Street,  the  mile  and  a  half  of 
houses  facing  the  Park  has  been  called  million- 
aires' row.  It  represents  construction  more 
than  reconstruction  and  as  yet  it  has  not  main- 
memories.  The  residences  until  late  in  the 
Nineties  were  scattered  with  many  vacant 
lots  and  mean  buildings  intervening.  The 
property  was  a  part  of 
various  farms.  One  of 
the  firstspeculators  in 
real  estate  here  was 
oneof  the Hoffmans, a 
distant  relative  of  the 
late  John  T.  Hoffman. 
He  invested  in  great 
tracts  of  this  Fifth 
Avenue  property  and 
built  a  beautiful  resi- 
dence at  the  coi  ner  of 
Seventy-ninth.  1 1  was 
one  of  the  first  of  the 
handsome  houses  in 
this  section .  Mr. 
Hoffman  failed  and 
the  house  was  pur- 
chased by  Mr.  Isaac 
V.  Brokaw. 

The  history  of  the  various  deals  and  changes 
in  ownership  of  this  mile  and  a  half  would  fill  a 
volume  and  it  is  like  the  shuffling  of  a  pack  of 
cards.  Many  of  the  first  speculators  im- 
proved their  property  by  building  brown- 
stone  houses  of  the  old  pattern.  These  when 
purchased  made  way  rapidly  for  the  great 
marble  and  grey  and  white  chateaux  and 
palaces  of  this  court  corner  of  the  town.  Cen- 
tral Park  was  opened  about  1859.  The  late 
Calvert  Vaux  had  the  arrangement  of  the 
grounds.  Near  its  entrance  is  the  old  Arsenal 
lately  used  as  a  police  and  a  park  building  and 
soon  to  be  demolished.  It  was  in  use  during 
the  Civil  War  and  had  a  flag  telegraph  by 
which  signals  were  interchanged  with  the 
down  town  arsenal,  at  Elm  and  White  Streets. 


The  Metropolitan  Club  and  the  town  house  of 
Mr.  Elbridge  Gerry  were  built  about  the  same 
time  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century. 
Mr.  Robert  Lenox  the  philanthropist  built  the 
Lenox  Library  and  gave  to  it  his  gallery  of 
paintings.  This  classic  white  marble  building 
was  recently  demolished  to  make  way  for  the 
new  residence  of  Henry  C.  Frick. 

Upper  Fifth  Avenue  has  been  rich  in  art 
collections.  The  Metropolitan  Museum  in 
Central  Park,  is  one  of  the  greatest  in  the 
world.  It  faces  Fifth  Avenue  from  Eighty- 
first  to  Eighty-fourth  Streets.  The  plain  red 
brick  building  which  is  one  of  the  group,  was 
opened  with  much  ceremony  in  1880  by 
Rutherford  B.  Hayes,  then  President  of  the 


A.  T.  Stew, 
Thirt\ 


irt  mansion  formerly  at  Fifth  Avenue  and 
-fourth  Street,  from  an  old  prim. 

United  States.  Various  additions  and  wings 
have  been  built  since  to  house  the  splendid 
collection  donated  by  the  late  J.  Pierpont 
Morgan,  the  late  Benjamin  Altman  and  others. 
At  the  southeast  corner  of  Sixty-eighth  Street 
is  the  Yerkes  mansion  and  art  gallery  which 
was  intended  by  its  owner  to  be  a  public  bene- 
faction after  his  death.  "Pickhardt's  Folly" 
is  the  huge  brownstone  house  at  the  corner  of 
Seventy-fourth  Street  built  at  a  cost  of  over  a 
million  of  dollars  in  1874  by  the  late  William 
Pickhardt.  It  was  far  up  town  and  not  con- 
structed as  he  had  planned  so  that  it  was 
practically  abandoned  and  years  afterwards 
it  was  sold  to  the  Rev.  Alfred  Duane  Pell  for 
less  than  five  hundred  thousand — one  of  the 
few  instances  of  temporary  deterioration  in 


C  ft  c    lp  i  £  t  o  r  p    of    a    43  r  r  «i  t    5  I)  o  r  o  n  g  li  f  ar  r 


values  on  the  Avenue*.  Mr.  IV11  has  a  won- 
derful collection  of  china  and  he  reserves  a 
part  of  this  big  house  as  a  private  museum. 
He  is  a  wealthy  clergyman  of  an  old  family. 

The  Whitney  mansion  on  Che  north  corner 
of  Sixty-eighth  Street  lias  also  a  history.  It 
was  built  by  Mr.  R.  L.  Stuart,  a  rich  sugar 
merchant.  Mr.  Whitney  bought  it  about 
1900  and  added  to  it,  changed  the  entire- 
interior  and  had  it  lavishly  decorated.  Here 
he  gave  a  ball  for  the  debut  of  his  niece 
Miss  (Catherine  Harney.  After  his  death,  it 
was  purchased  by  "Silent"  Smith  the  Wall 
Street  broker  who  inherited  an  immense  tor- 
tune  from  his  uncle  the  late  George  Smith. 
Mr.  Smith  married  the  former  wife  of 
William    Rhinelander  Stewart. 

SOME  FAMOUS  UPTOWN  HOUSES 

The  new  Knickerbocker  Club  stands  on  the 
site  of  a  house  of  French  Gothic  design  at  the 
south  corner  of  Sixty-second  Street.  It  was 
the  property  of  Mrs.  Josephine  Schmid  who 
made  a  fortune  from  a  Harlem  Brewery.  She 
married  latterly  the  Prince  del  Drago,  the 
scion  of  a  line  related  to  Spanish  Royalty. 
At  Sixty-fourth  Street  is  the  home  of  Mrs. 
James  B.  Haggin  the  widow  of  the  wealthy 
Forty-niner  who  made  an  enormous  fortune 
as  a  banker  in  San  Francisco.  The  house  was 
built  by  the  late  George  Crocker  another 
California  millionaire.     Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 


Crocker  died  within  a  short  time  of  each 
other.  The  late  James  B.  Haggin  who  lived 
until  he  was  oxer  ninety  was  one  of  the  daily 
pro  men  ad  ers  on  Fifth  Avenue.  His 
former  home  was  at  5X7  Fifth  Avenue. 
Shortly  before  his  death  he  purchased  first  the 
Progress  Club  building,  ;it  the  north  corner  ol 
Sixty-third  for  $840,000  bul  abandoned  it  and 
subsequently  bought  the  Crocker  house.  The 
George  Could  house  at  Sixty-seventh  Street 
was  completed  in  time  for  the  wedding  of 
Miss  Marjorie  Could,  the  eldest  daughter  and 
Mr.  Anthony  J.  Drexel,  Jr.,  and  is  a  large 
modern  structure.  It  stands  on  the  site  of  the 
former  Could  residence,  a  brownstone  house 
with  a  tower  and  here  took  place  the  wedding 
of  Miss  Anna  Gould  and  her  first  husband  the 
Count  de  Castellane  in  1895.  The  Astor 
residences,  the  homes  of  the  late  E.  H.  Harri- 
man,  the  late  Joseph  P.  Stickney,  the  ornate 
castle  of  ex-Senator  Clark  of  Montana,  the 
Frank  Woolworth  house,  and  the  homes  of 
James  Speyer,  Archer  M.  Huntington,  Henry 
Phipps,  Edward  J.  Berwind  and  many  million- 
aires present  a  succession  of  splendid  edifices 
up  to  the  domain  of  Mr.  Andrew  Carnegie  at 
Ninetieth  Street.  Beyond  this  the  Avenue 
is  chaotic. 

These,  then,  are  some  of  the  most  notable 
changes  which  have  taken  place  in  one  of  the 
greatest  streets  in  the  world,  typical  in  their 
rapidity  of  American  growth  and  the  national 
spirit  of  progress. 


Fifth  Avenue  and  Twenty-third  Street  just  before  the  Civil  War.  Later  the 
location  of  the  famous  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  and  now  occupied  by  a  large  office 
building. 


C.  G.  Gunther's  Sons 

ESTABLISHED  1820 


391  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York 


FIFTH  AVENUE 


DREICER 

JEWELS  PEARLS 


FIFTH  AVENUE  at  FORTY-SIXTH 
NEW  YORK 


Importer 

Gowns  .:.  Tailored  Frocks  .:.  Wraps 

665  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 


BRAND-CHATILLON  CO. 

EXCLUSIVE 
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634  FIFTH  AVENUE 

OPPOSITE  THE  CATHEDRAL 

REPRODUCTIONS  OF  OLD  ENGLISH  SILVER 

ENAMEL  AND  GOLD  TOILET  SETS 

COMPLETE  DINNER  SERVICES 
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Formerly  with 

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FORMERLY  AT  16  WEST  57TH  ST. 

J.  G.  Muli.er  and  John  Wanamakkr 

Riding  Habits 

and  Sport  Suits 

English  Models  Made  by 
an  American  Tailor  of 
High  Repute 

Riding  Breeches  a  Specialty 

HAS  BECOME  ASSOCIATED 
WITH  THE  COMPANY  AT 
154  WEST  46th  STREET 

17  West  45th  Street 
NEW  YORK 

Tel.  1766  Bryant 

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LEONARD  &  O'NEILL 

TAILORED  COSTUMES 
GOWNS       WRAPS  FURS 
DINNER  and  TEA  GOWNS 

19  WEST  FIFTY-SIXTH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 

Lichtenstein 

IVlil  I  in  ery  Com  pa?iy 

IMPORTERS 

Gowns,  Coats,  Tailored  Suits 
Blouses,   Trimmed  Millinery 
and  Novelties 

Copies  of  French  Gowns  made  to  order, 
if  desired,  at  short  notice 

584-586  Fifth  Ave,  47th  &  48th  Sts. 
NEW  YORK 

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43  West  56th  Street 
New  York  City 

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63  WEST  56th  STREET 
NEW  YORK 

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GOWNS 
FROCKS 
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A  pleasant  Sunday  morning  at  Easter  time  on  Fifth  Avenue;  looking  north  from  Fiftieth  Street,  showing  a  portion 
of  the  facade  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  and  the  new  Union  Club  House  at  the  corner  of  Fifty-first  Street. 


A  group  of  high-class  modern  residences  on  upper  Fifth  Avenue  above  Sixtieth  Street.  These  palatial  homes 
an  unrivalled  outlook  over  the  beautiful  expanse  of  Central  Park,  which  extends  from  Fifty-ninth  to  One  Hur 
and  Tenth  Streets,  a  distance  of  two  and  a  half  miles. 


ROLLS-ROYCE  ~ 

ROBERT  W.  SCHUETTE 

Authorized  Selling  Agent 

236  WEST  54th  STREET  NEW  YORK  CITY 


ylnnounces 
the  removal  of  her  dressmaking 
establishment  to 


734  Fifth  Avenue 

(near  south-west  corner  of  57th  Street) 

In  addition  to  better  equipped  order 
department,  a  larger  number  of  im- 
ported models  will  be  available  for  im- 
mediate delivery,  as  well  as  Madame 
Yovin's  own  exclusive  creations- 
original  or  copied. 

Your  visit  is  cordially  desired, 
irrespective  of  present  or 
future  patronage 


17  EAST  48th  STREET    NEW  YORK 

Between  Madison  and  Fifth  Avenues 

Will  display  authentic  Paris  models  of 

WRAPS,  COSTUMES 
GOWNS,  TAILORED 
SUITS,  BLOUSES 

The  visitor  is  cordially  invited  to  my  salon 
as  I  make  a  specialty  of  the  out-of-town 
patronage.    ATTRACTIVE  prices 


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H ave  you  seen 

MME.  HAMMER'S 

Fashion  Show  Salon 

Established  1892  Telephone  2471  Bryant 

1 29  West  45th  Street 


Tailored  Suits 
Wra  ps 
Gowns 

"That  Parisian  appearance" 

15  years'  experience 
among  the  fashionable  women 
of  New  York 

At  mo  si* moderate  of  prices 


NEAR  HK(  lADW  A  V 


C.M me.  Hammer's  Creations  caused  a 
furore  when  exhibited  at  the  Palace 
Theatre.     Her  gowns  were  awarded 

FIRST  PRIZE 

at  the  Fashion  Show,  Winter  Garden, 
for  their  beauty  and  design. 

This  house  is  famous  for 
its  out-of-town  patronage 


Fifth  Avenue  at  the  Plaza,  looking  north  from  Fifty-ninth  Street :  at  the  extreme  right  the  Nethcrland  Hotel,  on 
the  upper  corner  of  Sixtieth  Street  the  Metropolitan  Club,  and  beyond  that  what  is  known  as  the  "Millionaires'  Mile" 
of  splendid  private  residences. 


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663  3  th.  AVenue  XevTork, 


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FORMERLY  WITH 

THURN 
Gowns 

FRANCES  BUILDING 


665  FIFTH  AVENUE 

TELEPHONE 

PLAZA  3601  NEW  YORK 


View  of  Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  from  just  above  Thirty-fourth  Street,  the  new  building  of  Best  &  Co.,  on  the 
first  street  corner  to  the  left,  Tiffany  &  Company's  building  on  the  right  of  the  corner  of  Thirty-seventh  Street. 


Fifth  Avenue  at  the  upper  end  of  Madison  Square,  view  looking  north,  showing  the  new  Brunswick  Building  on 
the  right  and  facing  the  square;  in  the  middle  distance  on  the  left  is  the  spire  of  the  Marble  Collegiate  Church,  at  the 
corner  of  Twenty-ninth  Street. 


A  Rebuilder 
of  Gowns 


^GOWNre- 
modeled  by 
me  means  a  crea- 
tion that  is  up-to- 
date  in  every 
detail,  with  all  the 
chic  and  line  of 
the  latest  Parisian 
ideas. 


I  rebuild  gowns  successfully  for  out-of-town 
customers —  let  me  give  you  my  ideas  and  esti- 
mate before  you  discard  any  gown  or  suit. 

Artistic  dresses,  made  to  order  only,  for  all 
occasions.  Your  materials  accepted  when  desired. 


Perfect 
Workmanship 


Prices 
Reasonable 


W/2  WEST  37th  ST..  NEW  YORK 

Telephone  5265  Greeley 


ANTHONY  INC 

1 6  West  46th  Street 


ZNjtw  York's  Most 
(Exclusive 
Ladies'  bailor 


Tailored  Suits  Gowns 
Sport  Suits     Sport  Coats 
Burberry  Coats 


6738  Bryant 


67 38  Bryant 


CLEANED 

IN  12  HOURS 

Do  you  realize  what 
this  means? 

Phone  us  to  send  for  your 
garments  to  be  cleaned  and 
returned  to  you  like  new. 

Your  call  will  receive  instant  attention. 

MME.  LURAY,  INC. 

French  Dyeing  and  Cleaning 
511-513  \Y.  46TH  STREET 


Mile.  C  esanne  ±  niDaua 
64  East  55th  Street 
New  York 


•  •  • 


Gowns  of  Parisian 
Originality 


6738  Br  van  t 


6738  Brvant 


A.  J.  Crawford 
Company 

"THE  LITTLE  SHOP" 

Antiques,  Furniture  and 
Decorations 

5  East  48th  Street 

New  York 


Ladies'  Tailors  and  Furriers 

WRAPS 

AXD 

FURS 


"Barnett" 
Formerly  with  Hickson 


16  West  56th  Street 
N EW  York 


Hurwitz  &  Posten 

14  EAST  46th  STREET 
NEW  YORK  CITY 
NEW  YORK 
OPPOSITE  THE  RITZ  CARLTON 

TAILLEUR  COSTUMES 

Noted  for  the  style  and  character  of  their 
SUITS  and  COSTUMES  which 
appeal  to  the  most  fastidious 
of  the  elite  of  New  York 


Fifth  A\  enue  looking  north  at  Sixty-sixth  Street;  in  order  from  this  point  are  seen  the  residences  of  Mrs.  Henry  O. 
Havemeyer,  Col.  Oliver  H.  Payne,  Benjamin  Thaw,  George  J.  Gould  and  Thomas  F.  Ryan.  Central  Park,  opposite, 
gives  all  these  homes  an  unsurpassed  outlook. 


Residence  of  Commodore  Elbridge  T.  Gerry,  southeast  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Sixty-first  Street;  adjoining 
this  palatial  mansion  on  the  south  is  the  famous  Knickerbocker  Club  of  New  York. 


SdleaHnsedl  Portraits 
Him  Wsiftes3  Color 

M.atHhleeini  Maxwell 

PHONE — CHELSEA  8269 

We  specialize  in  two 
types  of  garments 

Walking  Suits 

.  and 

Sport  Clothes 

Some  of  our  imported 
modes  are  portrayed 
by  the  fashionable 
New  York  women 

Salerno  &  Masek 

Formerly  with  MULLER 

24  East  55th  St.,  New  York 

A  few  doors  from  St.  Regis 

Co  ttie  Visitor 

IS  EXTENDED  AN  INVITATION 
TO  INSPECT  THE  LATEST 

MODELS  OF  THE 
FOREMOST  COUTURIERS 
OF  PARIS 

CatUcurg  Bobes 

DISTINCTIVE  AND  ORIGINAL 

Ctjomas  B'Cufetma 

LATE  WITH 
CLARK  &  WEINBERG 
FARQUH ARSON  8s  WHEELOCK 

34-36  WEST  46TH  STREET 
NEW  YORK 

FLOKENCE  E.  YOUNGS 

GENEALOGIST 
38  WEST  59th  STREET 

Family  records  collected,  arranged 
and  typed 

CoatS'of-arms  drawn  and  painted 

Glaims  for  patriotic  societies 
prepared 

TELEPHONE  4259  PLAZA 

CHARLES  of  LONDON 

7  1  8  FIFTH  AVENUE 


MR.  E.  W.  HI  ST  ED 

World  Famed  Photographer 
N  EW  YORK 
announces  that  he  has  opened  a  Special  Studio  at 
537  FIFTH  AVENUE 
where  he  will  make 
Portraits  of  Children  Only 
Our  regular  studio  is  at  550  Fifth  Avenue,  where  we  are  making 
our  well-known  portraits  of  men  and  women.    Sittings  can 
be  made  at  your  home  or  hotel  without  extra  charge 
Telephone  6129  Bryant 


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FOR 

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THOROUGHNESS 


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TELEPHONES.  MURRAY  HILL  77512 


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OLD  ENGLISH  INTERIORS 
WORKS  OF  ART 


Guiry 

Importer  of  Millinery 

15  West  45th  St.      7  East  48th  St.  j 

Ladies  we  solicit  your  patronage  and 
will  take  pleasure  in  serving  you. 

After  October  1st.  1916,  our  only  address  will  be  ■ 
7  East  48th  Street 


The  massive  and  highly  ornate  residence  of  Senator  William  Andrews  Clark,  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and 
Seventy-seventh  Street,  the  most  elaborate  house  on  the  Avenue  in  its  architecture,  and  one  of  the  most  palatially 
furnished  within. 


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Mrs.  Gordon 

Re  builder  of  Gowns 


A  wide  selection 
of  new  model 
suits  and  gowns 
tor  afternoon 
and  evening 
wear. 

I  specialize  in  remodel- 
ing gowns  and  suits 
with  exceptional  facili- 
ties for  fittings  at  most 
reasonable  prices,  for 
out-of-town  patrons 
during  their  New  York 
visit. 

Results  have  proved  so 
satisfactory  that  my 
customers  have  de- 
clared their  remodeled 
gowns  to  be  as  good  as 
new. 


51  West  37  th  Street     New  York 


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Do  you  want  something  not  usually 
found  in  the  New  York  shops  — 
things  that  will  attract  attention? 

Special  designs  submitted  for  din- 
ner and  tally  cards  —  engagement 
cups  —  lamps  and  lamp  shades  — 
painted  furniture — mirrors,  etc. 

Especially  attractive  hand  painted 
basket  vases  decorated  to  order. 


PHONE  2410  GREELEY 


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on  both  fresh  and  salt  water— endorsed  by  highest 
authorities — and  used  by  travelers  the  world  over. 

Contains  no  cocaine,  morphine,  opium,  chloral, 
coal  tar  products,  or  their  derivatives. 

Sold  by  leading  druggists.  50c  box  enough  for 
24  hours.    $1.00  box  for  ocean  voyage. 

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A  copy  of  Mothersill's  Travel  Book  sent  by 
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Montreal,  New  York,  Paris,  Milan,  Hamburg 


Fifth  Avenue  and  Forty-second  Street,  looking  north ;  this  is  the  busiest  traffic  corner  in  the  metropolis,  and  never- 
ending  streams  of  autos,  trolley  cars,  carriages  and  trucks  present  endless  problems  to  the  traffic  policemen  stationed 
here. 


Fifth  Avenue  and  the  front  of  the  New  York  Public  Library,  looking  north  from  an  elevated  window  on  the  north 
side  of  Fortieth  Street.    The  first  building  on  the  right  has  now  been  replaced  by  the  new  edifice  of  Rogers,  Peet  &  Co. 


MME.  FRIED 

1 5  WEST  34th  STREET  NEW  YORK 

Opposite  the  Waldorf-Astoria  Hole!  Tel.  3907  Greeley 

<IWhy  should  you  pay  an  exorbitant  price  for  your 
hair?  Don't  do  it.  You  can  get  the  same  quality, 
same  attention  and  same  style  for  half  the  price. 


A  Special  Department  devoted 
to  our  out-of~toyvn  patrons 


Transformations  Massaging 
Hair  Coloring  Manicuring 


To  the  Visitor- 


If  you  are  looking  for 
a  Smart,  Original 

Fancy  Dress 


or 


Masquerade 
Costume 

you  will  find  it  at 

paul  ARLINGTON  iNc 

109  WEST  48th  STREET 

PHONE  BRYANT  2548 


O.  NEGRI 

ART  JEWELRY 
STU  DIO 


7  'he  en  thus  ia  smfo  r  France 
inspired  by  Lafayette  is 
reinspired  by  Perrier — 

"  The  Champagne  of 
Table  Waters." 


12  WEST  40th  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


CLASSIC  AND  MODERN 
JEWELRY 
INTAGLIO  GEMS 


Obtainable  at  all  high-class 

Hotels,  Restaurants   and  Grocers. 

515  Longacre  Bldg.  (Broadway  and  42nd  St.)  New  York 


Fifth  Avenue  looking  north  at  Sixty-seventh  Street,  showing  the  residences  of  George  J.  <  iould,  Thomas  1".  Ryan 
Mrs.  Joseph  Stickncy,  Daniel  Cray  Reid,  Francis  Burton  Harrison,  and  others.  All  these  residences  face  Centra 
Park  at  one  of  its  most  picturesque  viewpoints. 


.  Home  of  Mrs.  John  Jacob  Astor,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Sixty-fifth  Street.  This  great  rest 
dence  occupies  fully  one-half  of  the  block  between  Sixty-fifth  and  Sixty-sixth  Streets,  and  is  one  of  the  fines!  house 
in  the  best  known  portion  of  the  "Millionaires'  Mile". 


Recognized  A  uthority  on 
Correct  Riding  Attire, 
Country  and  Golf  Suits 


The  New  Patented 
Safety  Riding  Skirt 


IW  I.NTED  BY 


is  pronounced  by  prominent 
equestriennes  the  only  suc- 
cessful patented  safety  skirt 
now  in  use. 

73  West  47th  Street 
New  York 


\ia\  astride  habit 


'SAFETY  F I RST  HABIT' 


Cl)e  iLtttie  aattJtng^djool 

103  EAST  63rd  STREET 

FIFTH  AVENUE  ENTRANCE  TO  PARK 
AT  59th  STREET 


TELEPHONE  8940  PLAZA 
SUMMER  BRANCH    NORFOLK.  CONN. 

The  Little  Riding  School  provides  the 
discriminating  public  with  a  place  to 
ride  under  suitable  conditions. 

It  offers  to  novices — intelligent  instruc- 
tion. 

To  young  women  and  children  —  proper 
surroundings. 

To  the  accomplished — smartly  equipped 
saddle  horses  which  are  a  pleasure  to  ride. 


Telephone  Plaza  4128 


Gottlieb 

DISTINCTIVE  GOWNS 


2  WEST  57th  STREET 
NEW  YORK 


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of /jxtesf—  fashions 

Sm&mcing  practically  every 
successful  model  introduced  6y 
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our  own  representatives 

GOWNS  WRAPS  •  SUITS 
COATS  BLOUSES  MILLINERY 


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FIFTH  AVENUE 

AT  FIFTY-SECOND  STREET 

NEW  YORK 

HAVE  MADE 

The  Thoroughfare  and 
America  famous  for 

TAILORED  CLOTHES 
GOWNS        HATS  FURS 

Stupendous  Selections 
Smart  Silhouette 
Superlative  Service 

HAVE  MADE 

History 

FOR  A 

Great  Institution 


